Petition - Allow transgender people to amend their Tennessee birth certificates

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https://www.change.org/petitions/tennessee-house-health-and-human-resources-subcommittee-allow-transgender-people-in-tennessee-to-amend-their-birth-certificates

As of right now the counter says they need 210 more signatures.

[Eris]

Signed

[Sydney_NYC]

Signed!!!! and Being born in TN, Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! I'm sharing this on FB for my friends to sign, many are in TN.

I was just thinking about this today as I would love to get the existing law that prevents it from being changed challenged as unconstitutional. It would be a long fight, but would love to see it done.

[awilliams1701]

Signed. I'm in north Alabama takes about 20 minutes to get to Tennessee from here.

[ThePersona]

Let's see, if I leave right now I can be in Tennessee in about 5 hours, sounds good. Signed

[gennee]

Just signed.

[Yarngeek]

Thanks so much for posting this. I can feel myself changing the world already.

[Minervham]

Signed!

[Jeneva]

Signed, I was born and live in TN.

Not only can't we change our birth certificates, but even with a letter stating irreversible changes written to SSA specs, it will be changed back.  I had my SSA marker changed for maybe 2 months before they changed it back because a letter wasn't enough they wanted a birth certificate.  When I questioned them they said SSA administrators are state level and ours chooses to not accept changes.  Since I'm on SSDI this means a big deal to me.

[Sydney_NYC]

Signed, I was born and live in TN.

Not only can't we change our birth certificates, but even with a letter stating irreversible changes written to SSA specs, it will be changed back.  I had my SSA marker changed for maybe 2 months before they changed it back because a letter wasn't enough they wanted a birth certificate.  When I questioned them they said SSA administrators are state level and ours chooses to not accept changes.  Since I'm on SSDI this means a big deal to me.

I think TN is the most transphobic and homophobic state at a government level in the country. Fortunately many cities and towns are more friendly to the LGBT community, just not in state government. I was in Knoxville around Thanksgiving and one night I had dinner with my cousin who is a real estate broker there. Her business partner has a granddaughter that is transgender MtF and her mother is a Knox county school teacher. The school system will not do anything to support her even though the school principle and other teachers want to, they are not allowed to. I've sent her some information of the federal mandates for school systems that receive federal funding, so we will see what happens.

Given that latest victory from Transgender Law Center of the Indiana case (IN, OH, and TN) do not allow birth certificate changes on gender. I'm would love to see them tackle TN next. Tennessee is the only state that has a statue specifically against transgender individuals, the other stated simply refuse to provide a process to change the gender. TN doesn't just stop there. Jut for a name change, they cross out your old name, but still readable, and put your new name on top of it. Because of these two things, I just never bothered to change my birth certificate since I can use my corrected passport instead of a birth certificate.

[awilliams1701]

I know this isn't exactly trans or homo related, but Alabama has laws making it illegal to purchase adult toys online. It is one of five states. Unless Tennessee is one of them I would say that makes Alabama pretty backwards in comparison.

I think TN is the most transphobic and homophobic state at a government level in the country. Fortunately many cities and towns are more friendly to the LGBT community, just not in state government. I was in Knoxville around Thanksgiving and one night I had dinner with my cousin who is a real estate broker there. Her business partner has a granddaughter that is transgender MtF and her mother is a Knox county school teacher. The school system will not do anything to support her even though the school principle and other teachers want to, they are not allowed to. I've sent her some information of the federal mandates for school systems that receive federal funding, so we will see what happens.

Given that latest victory from Transgender Law Center of the Indiana case (IN, OH, and TN) do not allow birth certificate changes on gender. I'm would love to see them tackle TN next. Tennessee is the only state that has a statue specifically against transgender individuals, the other stated simply refuse to provide a process to change the gender. TN doesn't just stop there. Jut for a name change, they cross out your old name, but still readable, and put your new name on top of it. Because of these two things, I just never bothered to change my birth certificate since I can use my corrected passport instead of a birth certificate.